FOR FLOWERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 99, 28 April 1928, Page 15

FOR FLOWERS

Thoro is n, great demand for old ulo glasses 11) umo na (lower vases. Another old puico Mint is being sold for (lou'ur.s is ii, charming old punch Tlio old syllabub gliiHHim, or, us moiiio people cull them, jelly glasses, uro iihucl for Iho Himi.ll spring flowers. They ilnl.o from about, J7.HO to 18.15, mid this .in a vvvy early net rind rare with their curved-over rims. Tho old (Joorgiau goblets mill old sugar 1 KiHiiiM oul; (il' llui It'll. caddies are also delightful Cor flowers, :iml are much sought lifter, iih woll :ih l.ho two-lipped linger glasses' known lo Americans as "rinsers." The latter nro ho wido Ihitl l.hey iwv.il n glass lilock lo support Mm Unworn. Tlii! cut-glass preserve ,j;i i-m on nlciiih, find;, (Mind with hoiiio-itmdo preserves, graced ilui tables of our grandmothers mid groat-grandmothers, nro also requisitioned iih receptacles Cor Hliort-Hlcm-mod roses, And hoiiio people nro buying tlm cut-glass writct bullion -with narrow necks nnd linvinj' them cut down to ninlu' Hitmll howls, mi ,icl. ol1 v;iiulullnmi Unit uliuosl. lii'iii|;ti I cms tn Hid cycH (}f I ho |, fciiuiin< lovrr of old ({lnns, though lino whirh \h (ixciihmlili! wlu'i'o Hid nick is luidly hrokrn. .11' only (ho lip in chipped l.his cnn (.','inily lie rciiicdicd by luivinj; il, ground down nil round lo imiko it level. In I'iic.t, miiiiy people do not. know t\int. old tflnsH win bo iiioihliml. A lovely old nlo that luul hern brolccn oil! nl I ho foot whs very Htron^ly mul ulniosl. inv'iHilily inundod with a lit.tlo motiil pinto uiulcrnenUi.—li'rom Iho London "Dnily Olironiclc."